Got mine yesterday..

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Clove dispatched mine on tuesday, and for once Citylink managed to deliver on time to the right place :D

I got it yesterday morning, and from the moment I opened the outer packaging and saw the diamond-shaped box, it has been a very pleasant experience.

Bad things (thing!) first - I cant get Mapopolis working without killing the speed. It doesnt 'see' the GPS on com4, and if I connect via GPSGate, it does work, but it slows the entire phone down to a crawl. This is the only program ive seen that can do this.

Im coming from a iMate Ultimate 9502 (which replaced a Kaiser), which has nominally the same featureset (hardware wise) as the Touch Pro, but its like night and day. The touch pro is /so/ nice to use. Im loving touchPro 3d, and the graphics accelerator makes it work very very slickly. Also its a /lot/ faster than the 9502.

The first day with a new winmob device says a lot. My first day with the Tosh g900 was horrible, crashing all the time, running of of ram and nothing working, bad screen, a very dispointing day... The kaiser was nice. I went on to hate the g900 and love the kaiser. The touch pro hasnt done anything silly yet - no lockups, no hangs, no lag when texting.

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It's a great device. I've now used it for a full day at work with no problems whatsoever. (Apart from a bit of a learning curve, but nothing scary. The new stuff is generally easier to use than the old; I'm just not used to it yet!)

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Anyone managed to get a UMTS signal on theirs yet? I haven't seen mine switch to 3G, even in areas where the TyTN II would've got a good 3G signal. Could just be coincidence of course, but it'd be nice to know whether there's a fault or not.

(I have checked that the phone is set to allow 3G.)

I'm in the UK.

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Anyone managed to get a UMTS signal on theirs yet? I haven't seen mine switch to 3G, even in areas where the TyTN II would've got a good 3G signal. Could just be coincidence of course, but it'd be nice to know whether there's a fault or not.

(I have checked that the phone is set to allow 3G.)

I'm in the UK.

yeah, holding a 4 bar hspda signal in se1, london. youtube also works very nicely... you can pretty much bring up any song on demand... this thing rocks...

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Anyone managed to get a UMTS signal on theirs yet? I haven't seen mine switch to 3G, even in areas where the TyTN II would've got a good 3G signal. Could just be coincidence of course, but it'd be nice to know whether there's a fault or not.

(I have checked that the phone is set to allow 3G.)

I'm in the UK.

yeah, holding a 4 bar hspda signal in se1, london. youtube also works very nicely... you can pretty much bring up any song on demand... this thing rocks...

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Glad to hear your loving your new toy. A couple of question though, battery related. Does the battery run out quickly? how long would a full charge last you and what type of usage are we talking about. I know its still early days and testing hasnt really been done, but my touch pro battery uncertainty is the only thing holding me back from breaking the bank.

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Glad to hear your loving your new toy. A couple of question though, battery related. Does the battery run out quickly? how long would a full charge last you and what type of usage are we talking about. I know its still early days and testing hasnt really been done, but my touch pro battery uncertainty is the only thing holding me back from breaking the bank.

Cheers

Pick up your bank breaking hammer - the battery life seems excellent for a WM machine... normally when I get a new device i manage to empty the battary a few times, but this one is holding up really well (although like u say its early days atm).

Im not that supprised really - this design was made to work with a tidy 900mah battery in the Diamond, so we get 1 anda half times as much on the pro.

i got it down to about 50% yesterday, with some heavy internet + gps (google maps zoomed right in), a bit of youtube streaming, push email on all day, a few texts / emails and quite a lot of browsing. I can say with some certainty that no other [wm] device ive ever owned (including the 9502 with its huge 1800mah odd battery) could have done better...

had another nice suprise this morning - i plugged it into a pc for the first time (i usually dont need to thanks to OTA exchange sync), and it seems to have cardexport built in :D it asked if it should be a activesync, a exported SD card (mass storage), or a modem :D :angry: :( very nice...

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Pick up your bank breaking hammer - the battery life seems excellent for a WM machine... normally when I get a new device i manage to empty the battary a few times, but this one is holding up really well (although like u say its early days atm).

Im not that supprised really - this design was made to work with a tidy 900mah battery in the Diamond, so we get 1 anda half times as much on the pro.

i got it down to about 50% yesterday, with some heavy internet + gps (google maps zoomed right in), a bit of youtube streaming, push email on all day, a few texts / emails and quite a lot of browsing. I can say with some certainty that no other [wm] device ive ever owned (including the 9502 with its huge 1800mah odd battery) could have done better...

I agree with this. Mine is now on its second full day, and I've absolutely hammered it by playing with all the features. I didn't get it to drop below 50%.

had another nice suprise this morning - i plugged it into a pc for the first time (i usually dont need to thanks to OTA exchange sync), and it seems to have cardexport built in :D it asked if it should be a activesync, a exported SD card (mass storage), or a modem :D :angry: :( very nice...